The Metamorphosis begins out with Gregor in the process of turning into an insect. Insects are despised; they are looked upon as God's disgusting creatures. The fact that Gregor is turning into one is like him becoming unwanted. This foreshadows the story by portraying an outcast disapproved by the family. As an insect, Gregor brings horror to his family, since they do not recognize him as a member of the family anymore. He is blocked off from the human world because he's different. Lying in bed, Gregor looks out the window at the overcast sky and "hears rain drops beating on the window gutter". The rain symbolizes obstacles that limit Gregor's

Imprisonment no longer exists. The world is full of misfits that people endure each and everyday. Kafka shows many ways for one to be isolated from the world. Time, money, and duties all can be viewed as a form of imprisonment or enslavement. It is not until a tragic death that one can fully escape this horrible captivity.

Furthermore, the sofa in Gregor's room symbolizes restrictions and confinements. The sofa and the sheets that took Gregor four hours to assemble help barricade him from his mother and sister. They are there so his sister and mother will not be appalled at Gregor's conditions. They are there to hide the insect side of Gregor from the human world. This is why the setting of the story never leaves the Samsa's apartment. As for the other furniture, they represent the human side of Gregor. While he's an insect form the outside, Gregor is still human on the inside. He wants the furniture to be for they define him as human. He wants the old chest where he'd kept all his tools not to be moved. He wants his writing desk, where he did all his homework, to stay there, as a memory of the human childhood that still exists in him. Though the furniture prevents Gregor's insect body from moving freely, he still wants them there to represent the humanness inside him, Mentally Gregor is human, and physically he is just an insect. Thus, the furniture acts as barriers in both senses: barriers to prevent insect part of Gregor from spreading. As a twist acts as the barriers to hold in the humanness used by Kafka, when the furniture of Gregor, it can be said that it is pro

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